Galway Theatre Festival seeks volunteers

Thu, Apr 11, 2019

THE GALWAY Theatre Festival is seeking volunteers to help at this year's event which runs from May 3 to 11.

New release and gig from Junior Brother and PowPig

Thu, Apr 11, 2019

IT COULD have been called a split EP, but why go for the obvious when you can have "a quadruple A-side single release"? That is just what Junior Brother and PowPig have done.

My Fellow Sponges/Rufus and Jess gig

Thu, Apr 11, 2019

MY FELLOW Sponges, the Galway folk-rock/prog-rock band, and the Berlin based, Irish folk-blues duo, Rufus Coates and Jess Smith, will play a gig in Galway city this week.

New Galway orchestra's inaugural concert series

Thu, Apr 11, 2019

LUMINOSA MUSIC, Galway's new orchestra, will present its inaugural concert series, Soundings, at Galway Cathedral, with a programme spanning eight centuries of female composers.

Bob Skeleton announce Róisín Dubh show

Thu, Apr 11, 2019

FOLLOWING A busy 2018, Bob Skeleton, who describe their music as "midnight-pop" with shades of "West Coast cool and Mancunian mood", will play a headline show in the Róisín Dubh on June 7.

ConTempo and Coole Music play Loughrea

Thu, Apr 11, 2019

THE CONTEMPO Quartet and the Coole Music Youth Orchestra are joining forces to perform a concert of works by Arthur Duff, Werner Thomas, Katharina Baker, and Luís De Freitas Branco, in Loughrea.

Wild Youth, Daithí and Saint Sister for GIAF Big Top

Wed, Apr 10, 2019

SAINT SISTER, Daithí, and Wild Youth have been announced as support acts for shows at the Galway International Arts Festival Big Top in the Fisheries Field this July.

That day in May when Ireland said 'Yes'

Thu, Apr 04, 2019

ON MAY 22 2015, the Republic of Ireland became the first State in the world to approve same-sex marriage by popular vote, with 62.07 per cent voting to extend the right to marry to gay people.

John Lynn - Irish comedy's 'rising star' for the Róisín

Thu, Apr 04, 2019

JOHN LYNN, "the rising star of Irish comedy," according to The Sunday Times, and a man simply declared “brilliant” by The Irish Times, headlines next week's Comedy KARLnival at the Róisín Dubh.

Inni-K - new album, Galway gig

Thu, Apr 04, 2019

INNI-K, "one of ten fierce women defining Irish culture," according to RTÉ, released her second album, The Hare and The Line, in March, while this month sees her play an intimate show in Galway city.

John Spillane to open Jim McKee's new exhibition

Thu, Apr 04, 2019

THE BURREN landscape and a song by the great Cork singer-songwriter John Spillane have inspired a new exhibition of paintings by the artist Jim McKee, which opens this weekend.

Japanese Film Festival 2019

Thu, Apr 04, 2019

A YAKUZA thriller, a boy who meets a dancing Jesus, samurai warriors, a romcom, and anime - Galway is in for a feast of Japanese film throughout April.

Over The Edge Cúirt showcase

Thu, Apr 04, 2019

THE 14TH annual New Writing Showcase, hosted by the Over The Edge: Open Readings, will take place in the Town Hall Theatre on Wednesday April 10 at 11am, as part of the Cúirt Festival of International Literature.

Dumbo - Tim Burton's bad run of movies continues

Films Reviews Thu, Apr 04, 2019

DUMBO IS the first of three Disney live action remakes out this year, the others being Aladdin and The Lion King, and the company seems to have taken a different approach to each one.

'Everyone should be able to experience classical music'

Thu, Apr 04, 2019

MONDAY APRIL 15 will be a red letter day for Galway’s classical music aficionados as it sees the debut of the city’s new orchestra, Luminosa, at Galway Cathedral. The debut concert programme, Maestra, will feature works by female composers ranging from the 12th century Hildegard of Bingen to Galway’s own Jane O’Leary.

Galway Theatre Festival 2019

Thu, Apr 04, 2019

THE 2019 Galway Theatre Festival will see the city treated to 14 full productions and seven works in development, presented across eight different venues, over nine days in May.

We Banjo 3 man at Mick Lally Theatre

Thu, Apr 04, 2019

FERGAL SCAHILL, fiddler and guitarist with the Irish folk/trad success story that is We Banjo 3, will be among the musicians performing at the next 3 Saturdays: 3 Kinds of Music concert.

Liam O’Flaherty’s Hollywood sojourn

Literature Reviews Thu, Apr 04, 2019

BORN ON The Aran Islands in 1896, Liam O’Flaherty was to become one of the most distinguished and prolific writers of 20th century Ireland. His first book, Thy Neighbour’s Wife, was published in 1923 and was followed by an avalanche of novels, short stories, and poems in English and as Gaeilge, as well as travelogues.

Emilie Pine, Engage, and an exhibition

Thu, Apr 04, 2019

AN EXHIBITION, featuring a variety of artistic responses to an excerpt from Emilie Pine's Notes To Self - the 2018 An Post Irish Book Awards Book of the Year winner - takes place in Just Art It.

Controversial Israeli thriller for the Pálás

Thu, Apr 04, 2019

MICHAEL AND Dafna are told their terrible news that their son Jonathan has died while serving in the Israeli Defence Force. As they come to terms with the loss, and prepare for the funeral, they are informed that a terrible mistake has been made.

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